PIERRE ALFÉRIWhen Nothing Entices Nothing
when nothing entices nothing
stirs beyond inertia
becomes agitation impulse aiming at
nothing but a nothing in the
way and the slightest contact
reverses the directional flow (ignorant
of being observed through two windows, a stranger
dresses, undresses, sits, gets up, lifts up, sets down
the receiver): first the incoherence
of suspended particles
then the period. An ordinary movement
filmed in video
a gesture replayed, its space
run through in every direction like
a break-dance whose surface is only
the other side of the reverse, is already
something else: a form
impassive crystalline.
unlike the kaleidoscope
where tinted glass
slivers shake, the tomascope
paves a field of hexagons
by cutting triangles
it reverses
over each side.
An unfolded detail
whose edges become axes
of symmetry.
just this side of a certain pace
the equilibrium is broken. The sound of the piece
on its edge reaching the end turning tales
or heads, spinning on the tangent
sound that hesitates to sound
that concentrates and that renounces
is recognizable anywhere
like the gasp of the needle when the arm